County Championship Track Relays - July 13th - Updated with results
At an overcast and increasingly wet evening at Ashton on Friday night last week, Woodford’s young athletes took part in the County track relay championships and came away with a medal of each colour. Although the medal count was low, the evening saw a general willingness to fill in gaps and to take part to ensure that we could field teams with our sprinters and middle distance runners combining to good effect.
The gold medal came in the U17M 4x100 with the team anchored by Joseph Dewar coming across the line first (45.3sec) with a clear lead over the second and thrid placed Thurrock and Orion teams (47.1 and 47.5sec). The teams had to wait anxiously as the officials debated whether to run the event again as one of the other teams had been placed out of lane for a couple of legs; fortunately common sense prevailed and the result was allowed to stand. The silvers were won by the U13G 3x800 team of Katie Petyt, Aoife Guyatt and Olivia Hounsome (8m 08.8sec); they were 3 seconds off the Orion team but had a clear 30 seconds over the Southend team in 3rd. Our other silver was secured in the U13B 4x100 where the team (55.0s) finished behind Colchester (54.3s) but clear of a clutch of teams all within a second of each other just behind. The bronze medal was secured in the last, rain-soaked event of the night, the U17W medley team of Isobel Moss (800m), Steph Smith (300m), Joanne Linehan (300m) and Tobi Akiwumi (200m) who finished with a collective time of 4m 54.4s. There were many other good performances during the evening across the 4x100, 3x800 and medley relays; the results are available using the link below although unfortunately no leg split times were recorded.
The Senior Men’s 3000 championship was also held during the evening and Angus Holford (9m 12.5) collected the bronze medal behing Havering's Grant Twist (8m 54.2) and Chelmsford's Lee Pickering (9m 05.5) after displaying his trademark finishing sprint in the last 250m to make up 40m on Billericay’s Jamie Nunn (9m 16.2s) and catching him with 80m to go.